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In the past week, global crypto ETFs recorded net outflows for two consecutive weeks, with a cumulative outflow of $2.54 billion. Against the backdrop of adjustments in macro interest rate expectations, institutional risk appetite has contracted, but traditional financial assets such as stocks still maintain strong attractiveness.Data shows that the Gate TradFi Perp market exhibits significant asset rotation characteristics, with metals remaining the main trading sector, and daily trading volume once approaching $550 million to $600 million; meanwhile, the trading volume share of stock contracts continues to rise, indicating that the market's demand for allocation in U.S. stock-related assets is increasing. In the context of continued activity in AI tech stocks and U.S. stock indices nearing historical highs, TradFi Perp is gradually evolving from a single gold trading market to a dual-core structure of "gold + U.S. stocks."As institutional funds accelerate their allocation to stocks, ETFs, and other TradFi assets, Gate continues to promote the integration of TradFi assets and the construction of a multi-asset trading ecosystem, continuously strengthening its capability to provide institutional-level global asset allocation services, offering professional investors a more efficient one-stop cross-market trading solution.

Aleo released the privacy stablecoin white paper "Stablecoin Privacy," stating that the privacy layer is the key infrastructure missing for blockchain payment rails to be adopted by mainstream institutions. Aleo indicated that as the GENIUS Act provides opportunities for the widespread adoption of stablecoins, the issue of permanently public transaction information on public blockchains may still hinder institutions from using stablecoins in scenarios such as payroll, fund management, and vendor payments.Aleo claims that existing solutions do not adequately meet the needs of institutions in terms of privacy protection and risk management. The white paper proposes a permissionless private stablecoin architecture based on Aleo, which introduces programmable risk mitigation mechanisms while protecting transaction privacy through zero-knowledge technology and programmable smart contracts, allowing institutions to conduct private transactions without sacrificing compliance and risk control.It is reported that the team members behind this white paper have long been dedicated to research at the intersection of cryptography, policy, and financial systems. Aleo's Global Policy Director Yaya J. Fanusie, member of the Crypto Innovation Council and former Global Financial Crimes Compliance Officer at Coinbase Valerie-Leila Jaber, and cryptographer and Johns Hopkins University Computer Science Professor Matthew Green possess rare practical experience in private payments, financial regulation, and zero-knowledge cryptography.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju posted on the X platform that the sell-off by Bitcoin OG whales and long-term miners is essentially a large-scale transfer of holdings to traditional financial institutions, investors, and ETFs in the United States.He believes that the ultimate value of an asset depends on who is holding it. If the new holders are entities that can bring greater liquidity, the next round of price increases could come at any time. Traditional financial institutions may provide a stronger demand base than OG whales, although this may dilute the values of crypto-punk ideals. Ki Young Ju feels regret about this but still believes that Bitcoin will have its next bull cycle, which is worth waiting for.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan posted on the X platform, stating that institutions are like large oil tankers, which have now adjusted their course to support cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and stablecoins.He believes that this trend will not slow down, regardless of price performance.

According to BIT analysis, a significant feature of Bitcoin over the past four years is that most of the price increases are concentrated in a short period of rapid growth, followed by a prolonged period of sideways consolidation. The pullback phase also shows a similar pattern, where the price usually drops quickly at first, releasing most of the downward pressure in one go, and then gradually stabilizes.This round of pullback is mainly influenced by two factors: first, the U.S. April CPI announced in May was higher than expected; second, there are concerns in the market about Strategy selling Bitcoin and the subsequent potential selling pressure. As a result, the spot Bitcoin ETF quickly shifted from net buying to significant net selling, with a cumulative net sell of about $1.5 billion this year, creating noticeable pressure on the market.Currently, Bitcoin is still under pullback pressure, with $63,445 being a key support level to watch. Whether this level can hold will affect the market's judgment on the depth of this adjustment: if the price stabilizes near this area, this pullback will still be considered a phase adjustment; if it effectively breaks below, it may enter a deeper adjustment and consolidation.

FalconX stated that Hyperliquid's trading volume has exceeded Ethereum on certain trading days, and institutional funds are shifting from Bitcoin and Ethereum to HYPE tokens, primarily due to the weak performance of mainstream assets affected by ETF outflows and macroeconomic uncertainties.

The global stablecoin payment infrastructure platform WasabiCard today announced the completion of its Pre-A round of financing. Including previous funding, the total amount raised by the company has approached 10 million USD, with participation from four well-known institutions: Vernal Capital, Avenir Group, Vision Plus Capital, and 01VC.This round of financing will be used to build and improve the global payment infrastructure, compliance system, and key market business layout, enhancing cross-border payment service capabilities and global operational capabilities, further promoting the company's construction of a compliant, efficient, next-generation financial infrastructure aimed at the internet era.As stablecoins gradually move from trading scenarios to real commercial applications, the demand from enterprises for global payment, global card issuance, fund management, and cross-border settlement infrastructure continues to grow. WasabiCard currently serves over 500 enterprise clients globally, with a cumulative card issuance exceeding 500,000 cards and a total transaction scale surpassing 1 billion USD.In the future, WasabiCard will continue to expand its global payment network and multi-chain payment ecosystem, promoting the further implementation of stablecoin payments in global commercial scenarios.

According to IOL, the High Court of Gauteng Province in South Africa ruled that Bitcoin falls under "capital" and "currency" within the South African foreign exchange control system, and ordered the confiscation of nearly 6 million rand worth of Bitcoin assets. The court determined that a trader transferred nearly 1,680 Bitcoins to a wallet accessible only through an overseas registered cryptocurrency exchange via their Luno account between January 2018 and March 2020, which amounted to exporting capital abroad without approval from the Treasury, violating foreign exchange control regulations.Meanwhile, the South African Treasury released a draft consultation on capital flow management for 2026 last month, aimed at modernizing the management of cross-border capital flows by reducing pre-approval for transactions, strengthening reporting, and monitoring high-impact, high-risk cross-border transactions.

According to CoinDesk, FalconX stated that on certain trading days, its trading volume on the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid has surpassed that of Ethereum. Institutions and hedge funds are shifting from the range-bound Bitcoin and Ethereum to more volatile assets such as HYPE, Zcash, Venice, and AI concept tokens.FalconX pointed out that amid macro uncertainty and the outflow of funds from spot ETFs, the implied volatility of BTC and ETH is close to historical lows, and funds are seeking higher volatility targets. Hyperliquid attracts institutional funds looking to trade diverse assets in a 24/7 crypto-native environment by offering perpetual contracts for pre-IPO companies like SpaceX, tokenized stocks, commodities, and prediction markets. The platform's revenue is projected to be around $800 million in 2025.

According to The Block, Galaxy Digital has launched an over-the-counter prediction market trading desk aimed at hedge funds and family offices, with the first transaction being a $10 million Clarity Act-related contract reached with the crypto hedge fund Arca on Kalshi.As the primary market-making counterparty, Galaxy provides Arca with bilateral positioning and larger-scale liquidity. This service currently covers non-sports event contracts on Kalshi and Polymarket, encompassing markets such as economics, politics, and geopolitics, and plans to expand to more platforms. Galaxy can also hedge prediction market positions with stocks and commodity hedging portfolios, helping institutions manage multi-asset risk exposure around a single event in a unified manner.

The prediction market platform Polymarket has disclosed that it has completed its first institutional-level on-chain block trade, a six-figure dollar transaction executed by digital asset broker FalconX and AI risk clearing infrastructure startup Anera Labs on the Polygon blockchain. The transaction involved contracts related to the Ornn Compute Price Index, which is used to track the rental prices of NVIDIA H100 GPU chips.Polymarket stated that this is the first on-chain block trade involving institutional participation in the prediction market space. In the future, FalconX will also serve as the exclusive market maker for block trades on the Polymarket platform to support the liquidity needs and price discovery for institutional clients.

According to the latest weekly report from Gate Ventures, macroeconomic and regulatory factors continued to dominate market sentiment over the past week.U.S. stock indices rose across the board, with the Nasdaq index leading with a 1.19% increase. The U.S. dollar index weakened to 98.942, reflecting a repricing of investor expectations regarding monetary policy. Although BTC and ETH ETFs recorded net outflows of approximately $1.42 billion and $240 million respectively, putting overall pressure on the crypto market, the process of institutionalization is still accelerating.On the industry front, asset tokenization and institutional applications became market highlights, with the regulatory framework continuing to improve. Stellar collaborated with DTCC to promote the implementation of asset tokenization, driving XLM to rise 83% in a single week; the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued guidance on regulated cryptocurrency perpetual futures trading; Paxos became the first native crypto company to obtain SEC clearing agency status.In terms of investment and financing, a total of 7 financing transactions were completed last week, with a disclosed total financing amount of $521 million. Among them, Samsung invested $408 million in Dunamu, further reflecting traditional financial institutions' long-term optimism about digital asset infrastructure.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, institutions continue to buy and stake HYPE, driving HYPE to set a new all-time high this morning, reaching a maximum of $75.8.According to on-chain data monitoring, in the past 10 hours, at least 1.136 million HYPE (approximately $82.42 million) have been withdrawn from trading platforms and deposited for staking by ETFs and institutions such as Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF, a16z, and Galaxy Digital. Among them, Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF (BHYP) withdrew 336,000 HYPE (approximately $24.43 million) from Coinbase and deposited it for staking;a16z withdrew 300,000 HYPE (approximately $21.58 million) from trading platforms such as Kraken and OKX and deposited it for staking; a certain address 0x279...BA8 withdrew 191,000 HYPE (approximately $13.80 million) from Coinbase Prime; a certain address 0x9C4...6FC withdrew 160,000 HYPE (approximately $11.71 million) from Coinbase and deposited it for staking; Galaxy Digital deposited 147,000 HYPE (approximately $10.90 million) for staking.

According to Cointelegraph, Wintermute stated that it is expanding its institutional trading business into prediction markets. Wintermute will provide two-way market liquidity for event contracts at major venues to reduce spreads, support larger trades, and improve the reliability of market implied probabilities.Jake Ostrovskis, Head of OTC Trading at Wintermute, stated that prediction markets possess data characteristics of major asset classes, but liquidity is still in the early stages. Continuous two-way liquidity can not only narrow spreads but also support larger trading volumes, thereby improving the signals contained in market prices.

The AI Agent project AIVIVE has officially completed a new round of institutional financing, with a total amount of 8 million USD. Among them, VegaVentures led the investment with 3 million USD; Greenwood Global Capital, Echo3 labs, UZ Capital, and Bluemount co-invested 5 million USD.The funds will be used for AIVIVE to launch its self-developed proprietary framework agreement (AVVP), supporting intelligent routing and coordination across data and execution environments, and comprehensively upgrading AI infrastructure. This agreement enables real-time scheduling of multi-source data and seamless interaction in heterogeneous environments, further enhancing the automation and decision-making efficiency of A to A business.

ZeroTier CEO Andrew Gault stated that the potential threat of quantum computing to the Bitcoin industry may not be limited to the security of wallet private keys; encrypted communication and authentication data between institutions also face long-term risks.

According to an official announcement from Coinbase, Coinbase Financial Markets has become the first and only futures commission merchant (FCM) regulated by the CFTC in the United States, officially providing U.S. institutional clients with access to the global cryptocurrency derivatives market.Previously, U.S. users lacked compliant channels to access the global cryptocurrency derivatives market (which accounts for about 80% of global cryptocurrency trading volume). Currently, the open interest in Deribit Bitcoin options has exceeded $31 billion.With this launch, institutional clients can access international platforms such as Deribit through a single compliant channel, without the need to establish offshore entities. Retail user access services will also be launched soon.

The tokenized U.S. Treasury fund VBILL under VanEck has officially launched on the DeFi lending protocol Euler. The fund is issued and tokenized by Securitize, allowing investors to use tokenized U.S. Treasuries as collateral for on-chain lending and liquidity operations, while also meeting compliance requirements. This move reflects that DeFi protocols are accelerating their transformation towards institutionalization and compliance to attract traditional financial capital into the on-chain market.Data shows that the scale of tokenized U.S. Treasuries has surpassed $15 billion, growing approximately 150% over the past year. Traditional asset management giants such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Janus Henderson have all launched on-chain Treasury or money market products. Euler has previously integrated Securitize's DS Protocol to support the access of tokenized securities with investor qualification restrictions and transfer rules to the lending market. DeFi protocols like Aave are also laying out institutional-level RWA business. Institutions expect that the asset tokenization market could reach $18.9 trillion by 2033. Securitize executives stated that as traditional financial institutions enter the crypto space, DeFi protocols must find a balance between openness and compliance requirements.

According to Yu Jin monitoring, the secondary investment institution Trend Research under Yi Lihua will transfer an additional 2.705 million UNI (approximately 8.71 million USD) and 114,000 COMP (approximately 2.13 million USD) to Binance, or is preparing to liquidate all positions, which would result in a loss of 40.29 million USD if sold.